Class

Zusatztext The collection offers a valuable insight into the problems and an interesting choice of views on the various facets of class. Informationen zum Autor Patrick Joyce is Lecturer in History at the University of Manchester. Klappentext In recent years, the concept of class has come under increasing scrutiny, as a means of explaining both the present and the past. Economic and social change, together with profound changes in intellectual outlook have called into question the utility of the class concept. Furthermore, feminism has led us to reconsider the whole notion of class identity. Can class viably explain the present? Did it ever provide an adequate explanation of the past? How did concepts of class develop? What is the language of class? A variety of writings are drawn upon here to suggest answers to these questions, to provide a balanced survey of thought on class, from Marx and Weber to the postmodern thought of the present day, and to look beyond this towards the very future of the idea of class. Zusammenfassung The concept of class has come under increasing scrutiny, as a means of explaining both the present and the past. Can class viably explain the present? How did concepts of class develop? This book contains writings, which provide a balanced survey of thought on class, starting from Marx and Weber onwards.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Patrick Joyce
• Mitarbeit: Patrick Joyce (Herausgeber), Joyce Patrick (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 06.04.1995
• EAN: 9780192892522
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289252-2
• Seiten: 380
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 220 mm x 30 mm
• Serien: Print on Demand; Oxford readers
• Themen: Schule und Lernen > Unterrichtsvorbereitung > Berufliche Bildung; Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity